Full Description
This book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century—a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the Romantic artist as a young rebel against convention who is too sensitive to survive in the harsh commercial world. As a prodigy who made his incipient death the subject of his tragic poetry, he was influential on both sides of the Atlantic—on Keats, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Emerson and Bryant. The edition restores his powerful, macabre and prophetic verse to attention, and also demonstrates his variety and range. It includes a comprehensive introduction discussing the creation of his public image, the marketing of his poetry, and the impacts he made on nineteenth-century poetry, on labouring-class writing and on publishing history.
Contents
Chronology of Kirke White's Life
Introduction
A Note on Copyright — the Remains, 1824
Manuscripts
Editions
Poems from Clifton Grove: a Sketch in Verse, with Other Poems
Poems from The Remains of Henry Kirke White 1807
Poems first published in The Remains of Henry Kirke White 1808, 1811, 1821, 1822, 1823 and 1825
Poems Not Included in Clifton Grove or in Southey's The Remains of Kirke White
Unpublished Manuscript Fragments From Kirke White's Commonplace Book
Prose
Appendix I: Southey's Account of the Life of H. K. White from The Remains Of Henry Kirke White (1807)
Appendix II: Southey's Preface to Vol. III of *Remains *(1822)
